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The painting Flight Over the Dunes by Cindy House was purchased for MABA’s collection in 2014.
Cindy House wrote: The last step in my pastel painting is to add the birds. In Flight Over the Dunes, they were the small flock of flying Mourning Doves. I found the landscape incomplete without the birds that happened by when I was in the field. Birds have an inexplicable way of bringing life to the landscape.
Cindy considers the greatest gift given to her by her mother, a natural history teacher, was the ability to see and observe the splendor of the natural world. She now uses that gift to express herself with pastels and occasionally oils.
In 2009 MABA was honored to host an exhibition of Cindy’s work, Landscapes Discovered: Pastels of New England by Cindy House. To see more of her art, visit her website.
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